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These Halls Can Talk: A Conversation with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Goswami Action Grants: Apply by January 25
Youth-Designed Summer Programming: NextGen Knowledge Sharing
- BLTN Journal: Tell Your Story of "Teaching and Writing in the Anti-Woke Moment"
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BLTN, Nuclear Non-proliferation, and the Critical Issues Forum
- NCTE '24 Proposals Due January 31
- Summer 2024 Bread Loaf Courses, Fellowships Posted
- Mid-year Reports for Current Fellows Due February 15
- U.S. Department of Education School Ambassador Fellowship Applications Open
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These Halls Can Talk: A Conversation with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Shaleisa Brewer MA '22, Site Mentor for our Atlanta site of BLTN NextGen and Director of "These Halls Can Talk," shares this timely note.
"For almost one hundred years, Booker T. Washington High School has stood in the Westside community, radiating a dignified charm and taking pride in the excellence it has embraced on its halls. On this day, These Halls Can Talk commemorates the embodiment of the excellence that has walked the halls of Booker T. Washington High School—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—by participating in meaningful dialogues with some of his inspirational quotes on education, individuality, violence, and hope."
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Goswami Action Grants: Apply by January 25
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We are pleased to again offer Goswami Action Grants to BLTN educators needing financial support for projects to be completed by June, 2024. Grant awards range from $500-$2,500. For inspiration read about past Goswami-funded projects in the BLTN Journal. Proposals are due January 25, 2024. (Follow directions in the announcement linked above to apply.) Stay tuned for a new round of BLTN Change Action Grants announced in February.
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Youth-Designed Summer Programming: NextGen Knowledge Sharing |
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As a result of learning from others across BLTN NextGen sites, and from their own local advocacy work, the NextGen youth at Aiken, South Carolina are busily planning for the launch of a two-week longitudinal summer program called "Leaders in Training" (L.I.T.). This program, notes Site Mentor Dr. Kayla Hostetler, "has grown out of several years of work at identifying the roots of our problems and traveling to other groups such as Lawrence, Santa Fe, and Louisville."
"Our kids and my belief," continues Hostetler, "is that if we pour [our efforts] into the youth, we will create a better world. We can really help make a difference with systemic issues by providing a supportive space that uplifts youth, provides them with arts, skills, resources, and connects them with adults who look like them doing successful careers."
This Fall, a cohort from Aiken traveled to Lawrence, MA, with support from Middlebury's Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation, to learn more about the longstanding youth-led Andover Bread Loaf summer programming. Lou Bernieri MA '80, ABL's Founding Director, comments on the evolution of their youth development. "Andover Bread Loaf’s Writing Leader Program focuses on developing youth as teachers and leaders. The program goes beyond a 'youth-centered pedagogy' to a 'youth-driven pedagogy' that enables youth on their own to organize and run workshops and programs for other youth and adults. For many years, it was adults who led Writing Leader training, but in the last decade the program has evolved so that it is ABL youth themselves who run the professional development of other Writing Leaders. The work of sharing their knowledge and expertise with young people from Aiken and other Next Gen sites has proven exciting and fruitful for ABL Writing Leaders, as they witness the power of youth from other parts of the country becoming agents of change in their respective schools and communities."
Like its ABL inspiration, the Aiken program aims to help young people build arts and literacy skills and affinities through their early years, inspiring them to become program leaders as they mature.
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Aiken crew visits ABL. From left: Lou Bernieri, Kayla Hostetler (Aiken), Amaryllis Lopez, Deztini Jones (Aiken), Ter'Nautica Brown (Aiken), and John Kuta. ABL hosts introduced Aiken visitors to the many partnerships that support their programming.
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BLTN Journal: Tell Your Story of "Teaching and Writing in the Anti-Woke Moment" |
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Why publish in the BLTN Journal? Write with your students. Use the composing process to reflect on your practice. Help shape the teaching narrative: Colleagues and policy makers need to hear your stories. (And it never hurts to have publications on your résumé.) Please read the 2023 Call for BLTN Journal Submissions and contact Tom McKenna, Journal Editor, with any questions, or to discuss ideas for submissions. Tom is eager for these conversations, especially as current fellows compose their mid-year reports. (See below.)
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BLTN, Nuclear Non-proliferation, and the Critical Issues Forum |
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The Critical Issues Forum (C.I.F.) at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies aims to "help students 1) appreciate different national and cultural perspectives on complex international security issues and 2) contribute to international peace and security, disarmament and nonproliferation, and other social justice endeavors while developing their critical thinking and intercultural communication skills." The C.I.F. recently received funding from Middlebury College's Office of the Provost to engage three or four BLTN high schools, whose students will join the spring conference in Monterey in April. Stay tuned for more details in our February issue. Visit the CIF website or contact Masako Toki, Senior Project Manager, for more information on the project.
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NCTE '24 Proposals Due by January 31
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We encourage you to showcase your BLTN literacy work by applying to present at NCTE 2024 in Boston. The call for proposals is out and due by 9:00 a.m. ET, Wednesday, January 31, 2024. Let us know if you apply to present, please. Should your proposal be accepted, there will be opportunities to apply for BLTN funding to support travel. If people applying would like to gather to share notes, we can organize that, too.
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Summer 2024 Bread Loaf Courses, Fellowships Posted |
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Mid-Year Reports for Current Fellows Due February 15 |
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We ask current BLTN fellows to reflect and report on their teaching and collaboration at mid-year (by February 15). Fellows, please find the report form and instructions here. Be in touch on BreadWeb or via email with any questions, please.
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U.S. Department of Education School Ambassador Fellowship Applications Open |
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The U.S. Department of Education is accepting applications for a one-year fellowship that engages school-based educators in development of policies that impact learning environments nationwide. Deadline is February 5.
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